The 370th Night of Memories program was held on July 23, 2025, with the theme “Muharram at the Front” at the Sura Hall of the Art Center. In this program, Reza Afsharnezhad, Seyyed Saleh Mousavi, and Ramin Asgari shared their memories. The event was hosted by Davood Salehi.
Roughly three months before Operation Fath al-Mobin, Hassan Baqeri told me in one of the meetings held at the Golf headquarters in Ahvaz that two men from the command post were to arrive and conduct a general reconnaissance of the Dasht-e Abbas area. He emphasized that the reconnaissance team would operate directly under his supervision, ...
I was standing by his room, waiting for him to allow me to enter. A short while later, permission was granted. I went in. He raised his head. Sadness and depression poured from his eyes. He greeted me... I sat down and looked at him. Sergeant Esmaeel Amin was the sub-lieutenant of the mechanized unit of the 604th Battalion, 1st Regiment, stationed in "Rawanduz".
The Oral History Website, in order to better understand the problems and challenges of producing oral history works or memoirs, has conducted interviews with several experts and practitioners in this field. These will be presented as short notes.
The 370th Night of Memories program was held on July 23, 2025, with the theme “Muharram at the Front” at the Sura Hall of the Art Center. In this program, Reza Afsharnezhad, Seyyed Saleh Mousavi, and Ramin Asgari shared their memories. The event was hosted by Davood Salehi. The second narrator of the Night of Memories program was “Seyyed Sali”, whose real name is Seyyed Saleh Mousavi.
It had been a few days since I had grown acquainted with Jafar Dowlati-Moghadam. Today marked both the commencement of the Sacred Defense Week and the anniversary of the Baathist regime’s invasion of our homeland. For several days, whenever I went outside for a breath of fresh air, I spent most of my time with Jafar Dowlati-Moghadam and Meysam Seirfar. Hamed, one of the Iraqi guards, had a particularly hostile relationship with Jafar.
He was coming towards us. Proud and intoxicated by a hollow victory. Happy with the commendation rank that rested on his shoulders. A deceived one who had received the rank from a rebel and a tyrant. He sipped his coffee over the corpses of those who had become fuel for the fire of war. I don't know if we were wretched people or blind, insight-less ones?!
A fragment from the memoirs of First Lieutenant Mohammad Mohtashamipour
At 3 a.m. on the seventeenth of Shahrivar 1357 (September 8, 1978), the orderlies came after me and delivered the “standby” order. In my twelve years of service, this was the first time I had ever been put on standby at this hour of the night. I thought to myself: ...
Report on the Session Oral History of Crisis – Part 2
According to the Oral History Website, the session titled “Oral History of Crisis” was held on Tuesday, August 19, 2025, organized by the Library, Museum, and Document Center of the Islamic Consultative Assembly. The event featured speeches by Hojjatoleslam Saeed Fakhrzadeh, ...
The definition of a “journalist” and the profession of “journalism” is not limited to simply “gathering,” “editing,” and “publishing breaking news.” Such an approach aligns more with the work done in news agencies and news websites. But now, after years of working in the field of books for various news agencies, newspapers, and magazines, when I look back, I realize that producing and compiling content for ...
Today, oral history is regarded as one of the research tools attracting the attention of contemporary historians and even interdisciplinary studies. Just as these sources can be trusted, the opposite is also true. Oral history researchers face challenges during their investigations that sometimes lead to dead-ends in analyzing events. Although some oral historians, after years of interviewing, do not consider oral history data alone as fully accepted, they strive to present ...
The Oral History Weekly, an electronic periodical that commenced its regular publication in November 2010, now stands on the threshold of releasing its 700th issue. Published every Wednesday, the newsletter consolidates all content posted on the Oral History website over the preceding week and circulates it to more than 850 subscribers via email. This report—drawing upon statistical data from content published on ...
